LIEBERMAN AND McCAIN READY THEIR "DON'T BLAME ME-- BUSH WAS A WIMP" DEFENSE
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A few days ago I heard Lieberman on NPR blabbling about escalation in Iraq. He's a big supporter of beyond-neocon-warmongers like Keane, Kagan and Kristol (Bush's very own KKK) and a sly underminer of the positions of military and diplomatic strategists who have warned that the Bush Regime is on the wrong path in Iraq. Beyond Lieberman's violent and maniacal hatred of Wes Clark, any general who doesn't toe the Bush political line, be it Abizaid or Casey or anyone else with actual experience isn't worth paying any attention to. The military's best friend in Congress, Jack Murtha? Worthless to Lieberman and McCain. A conservative Republican senator who was wounded in battle, Chuck Hagel? Beneath contempt to the "Wipe 'em All Out" armchair strategists like Lieberman, McCain and Bush. Aside from assuring his listeners that he finds the Biden-Hagel-Levin nonbinding resolution intellectually dishonest-- and let's be real; does anyone in the Senate know more about dishonesty than Joe Lieberman?-- Lieberman wanted to make sure everyone is aware he is considering joining Mitch McConnell in a filibuster of the bill AND that he feels the one flaw in the Bush-McCain escalation plan is that it doesn't escalate enough.
Lieberman almost makes Bush sound like a moderate. Like the KKK nuts, he thinks Bush isn't sending in even half the number of troops needed. And today on Meet the Press McCain parroted the same talking point. "If it had been up to me" (and here I agree wholeheartedly with religionist nut James Dobson: "God forbid!")... many more troops would be heading into the Iraqi civil war right now.
That's the other talking point the McCain-Lieberman sisters and their KKK pals are whining about-- for this to work, it has to happen now. McCain and the others have been bitching that the Pentagon (read: Robert Gates) is dragging its feet. They think Bush is crazy to not serve the American public and the Congress a fait accompli. At the same time, of course, these are the pre-fab, readymade excuses Lieberman and especially McCain will have to divert blame for the preordained failure of "surge" from themselves and onto the hapless and pathetic bumbling Bush. Somehow, though, I can't see it working as a platform for a presidential run.
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 12:05 PM
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IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE:
USA Today reported on 16 January 2007 in its Washington Section that the CIA plans to utilize more open sources and blogs in its intelligence work and outsource more of its intelligence software development to commercial contractors in an attempt to re-establish itself as the premiere world intelligence agency.
The "Strategic Intent" is posted on the CIA public web site. Defense Industry Daily further reports that General Electric is gobbling up Smith's Industries for $4.8B.
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2007/01/ge-buys-smiths-aerospace-for-48b/index.php
I am a 2 tour Vietnam Veteran who recently retired after 36 years of working in the Defense Industrial Complex on many of the weapons systems being used by our forces as we speak. Let's look at this for a moment and do our patriotic duty by reading along with the CIA (after all, they have announced they are reading this blog)
1. The new CIA approach comes exactly at the formation of the agency’s new "External Advisory Board", which consists of the following:
* A former Pentagon Chairman of the Joints Chief who is now a Northrop Grumman Corporation Board Member
* A deposed Chairman of the Board of Hewlett Packard Corporation (HP)
* A Former Deputy Secretary of Defense who now heads up a Washington think tank with Henry Kissinger
2. Northrop Grumman Corporation and Hewlett Packard are two huge government contractors in the Pentagon and CIA custom software development arena. Their combined contracts with the government just for IT are in the multiples of millions. I wonder what the advisory board is filling the CIA's ear with?
3. Washington "Think Tanks" are fronts for big time lobbies, sophisticated in their operations, claiming non-partisanship, but tremendously influential on K Street. If a lobby cannot buy its way in, why not sit on the advisory board?
4. GE already has the military aircraft jet engine market. In buying Smith's, it takes one more major defense corporation out of the opposition and further reduces the government's leverage through competition. GE now joins the other monoliths such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon with tremendous leverage in the $500B +++ per year defense market.
5. Note the synergy that now exists between the Pentagon and the CIA. Note the influence by the major corporations.
6. Also note the balance in your bank account and your aspirations for the generations of the future. Both are going down.
7. The huge Military Industrial Complex (MIC) continues to march. Taxes and national debt will be forced to march straight up the wall to support it. Do you have any "Intelligence” to offer the Pentagon, the CIA and the MIC? For further inspiration please see:
http://www.rosecoveredglasses.blogspot.com
Minor point: Heath Shuler won in NC not TN, beating Charles Taylor in NC-11. Shuler will be better than Taylor, and voted for Speaker Pelosi, but isn't really our kind of Democrat, from what I hear.
Great post!
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